Land Use Opposition: Data Centers

Opponents to a proposed data center in Reno, Nevada say that no public hearing was held. The City says it was an administrative decision and thus no hearing was necessary. 

Opponents say city ordinances treat data centers like warehouses and that data centers are “unique in their impact to residential communities, the electric grid, and natural resources use, and therefore need to be considered under an ordinance that caters to their unique impacts.” 

Route Fifty | Effort to block Reno data center offers glimpse of increasingly thorny issue in Nevada